CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3543, 16 November 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

A WAIL FROM BEACH AKD

OOOTB ROADS.

[To the Editor of the Daily Tekegbaph.J g TBj _The residents of Beach and Coote roads must certainly be considered a longsuffering people. Nuisance upon nuisance exists there, and instead of the Council stepping in to remedy them they are are allowed to remain and grow worse. With your kind permission I will draw attention to a few of these in the hope of having some of them attended to. Startin<r from Nesbitt's corner there is as nice a little quagmire as it is possible to meet with, making it utterly, impossible for ladies to pass in wet weather. A few steps further along we come to some halfdozen house drains emptying themselves into the gutter (two of them, by-the-way, being open half-way down the bank), which is formed in such manner by the aid of science and engineering skill that no water or refuse is ible to find its into the drain, so tbat it until it evaporates or soaks its way*into the sbingle through some two feet of road metal. In most cases, I need hardly say, it remains there for months together, and even now there is a stagnant pool of water with a fine green top to it, giving good promise for the health of the residents of the locality. A few steps further on, on the olher side of the road, is another nuisance, this time, however, of a different kind. Our City Fathers, in their consideration for the safety of pedestrians, had a protection Tail put part of the way along the road, but during the heavy eeas early in the wintir some four or five feet of tbe road WBS washed away, and of course the rail bad to be removed. At one part the road ia about twenty feet wide, and suddenly it becomes about fourteen feet wide, and just at the point where the road narrows, and where the protection. is most needed, the rail bas been carefully removed, and a stranger walking along on dark nights like we are now having runs a very good chance of taking a step that will land him at the bottom of a twelve foot bank. A few steps further and yet another nuisance. At 5 o'clock every night a lot of boys are to be found drawing a cart full of workshop sweepings, which with great consideration, is emptied and burnt in such a place that the smoke from it will just catch people goiug home from town, and follow

them up the Coote road to the first bend, While at this corner let me point out that there is no lamp between the police station and the bakery at the top of the road, and that it is positively unsafe for unprotected females to pass the place on dark nights, for with a sort of natural instinct, drunkards and rogues hang about the gaol, while the old man's refuge provides a capital place of retreat in case of surprise. Only a few evenings ago I was called upon to protect a young woman who was being insulted by a half-drunken larrikin at this corner. When the quarrel was going on in the Council a short time ago, which ended in its being decided to put three lamps on the Beach road, wo certainly thought the wisdom of the council'.ors would hate directed one to be put hero. Proceedm? on my walk up the hill let me point out that the road has recently been cut up to lay the water-pipes, and a more ( disgraceful state than it has been left in it would be hard to imagine. "With the same kind consideration as directed the removal of the rail, tho pipes have been laid within three or four feet of the same side of the road that the houses are on, so that the approach to each gate is a ■' bog." The road was bad as bad could be before, but now it is worse than bad. If tbe Inspector of Nuisances should be unable to find all the spots mentioned I shall be happy to devote an hour in pointing them out to him, with a few others added.—l am, &c,

R.L,

Coote road, November 15